Bonnie Rochman

Bonnie Rochman writes about parenting for TIME. She is a former TIME intern who has also reported from the Middle East, Myanmar and Vietnam for the Boston Globe, the Jerusalem Report and Fortune. A former staff writer at The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. — where she was the paper's parenting blogger, chronicling the wacky yet universal idiosyncracies of her three children — she now lives in Seattle.

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Experts don’t advise that young children get tested for a well-known breast cancer gene mutation. But if mothers are tested, should they tell their kids, who have a chance of carrying the same mutation?

Score one for pushy parents. The families of two children with cystic fibrosis who need new lungs but were ineligible for adult organs have successfully used the courts and public opinion to get their daughter and son on the

At her Seattle high school, Shannon Keating wears a hat to camouflage a head made bare by chemotherapy. In the hospital, surrounded by other teens her age, she’s more comfortable going bald. “I feel fine not wearing a hat …

In general, doctors aren’t thrilled with the idea of home birth. And while less than 1% of U.S. babies are ushered into the world at home, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) decided to collaborate on guidelines they say …